August Friedrich Kellner Quotes

if you learn to hate one or two persons... you'll soon hate millions of people.

Why only hate? Where does love remain? Or at least a little decency toward other people?

You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.

I find man's inhumanity to man extraordinary,,, I can't get my head around it.

Humanity is best described as inhumanity.

I don’t understand hate. I’ve seen its power. I’ve known its wrath. I’ve even felt it coursing through my veins, pushing me on. But I don’t know where it comes from or why it lasts, how it can take hold in some people and grow.

Asia discovered two remedies for the cruelty of man, art and religion. America discarded both and is drowning in hate and aggressivity.

No one is born with hate in their heart. Hate is something that has been taught. It is not an innate survival skill that we need; It is a form of stupidity that penetrates our minds and will eventually destroy us.

There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, I said, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too.

The most identifying trait of humanity is our abilty to be inhumane to one another.

When we see others as the enemy, we risk becoming what we hate. When we oppress others, we end up oppressing ourselves. All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others.

In a world of hate, love is the revolution.

When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans.

One shouldn't be afraid of the humans. Well, I am not afraid of the humans, but of what is inhuman in them.

We, as human beings, have the capacity for extreme cruelty.

There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man.

So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, 'The good outnumber you, and we always will.'

Gentleness is the antidote for cruelty.

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.

The truth, of course, is that the only necessary and sufficient condition for human beings to murder one another is the simple fact of being human.

Peoples are made of hate and of love, and more of hate than love.

Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.

Sometimes you have to be cruel... in order to be even crueler.

I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!

Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.